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Article: Suit invades MySpace.
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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Universal Music is taking on its biggest opponent yet in its battle against user-generated sites: MySpace.
Diskery on Friday sued the News Corp. company for copyright infringement, seeking up to $150,000 for each alleged infringement and an injunction against the popular site. Suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
UMG and MySpace had been engaged in negotiations for a revenue-sharing agreement but talks broke down, prompting the suit.
In a complaint that riffed on the phrase user-generated as "user-stolen," UMG alleged the site intentionally facilitates the dissemination of copyrighted audio and video--and does so in the name of competitive ...